Our first compilation for 2008 presents a facet of ambient music that is often overlooked in favor of the more electronic or synthesized soundscapes. Here we have an eclectic collection of works featuring a broad variety string instruments, usually but not always treated to effects. In the artist credits below we've provided information about the instruments used, and you can see they range from the familiar to the exotic.

This compilation is divided into two parts, each with accompanying sleeve art so it can be burned to disks if you wish.

*Disk A

01 Oil of Haemony - Beltaine Frost (04:04)
[ukulele, banjolele, effects]
www.wildmuse.net

02 Sandy Spreitz - Strings (02:00)
[steel string guitar, effects]
www.sandystudio.com

03 Gurdonark - Ninth Can-jo Meditation (03:11)
[Can-jo with effects]
gurdonark@aol.com
www.negativesoundinstitute.com

04 Marco Lucchi & Ensemble - Fado Orfico (03:16)
[harp, performed by Cristina Blarzino]
www.musichevirtuali.org/

05 Earzumba - Tratandome Como Un Extraño (02:43)
[small 4-string guitar]
www.myspace.com/earzumba
www.earzumba.com

06 Djinnestan - C plus A (05:00)
[electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, banjolele, ukulele, autoharp, zither, effects]
www.djinnestan.com

07 Mystified & Ctephin - Secret Order (03:40)
[bowed dulcimer]
www.mystifiedmusic.com

08 Glenn Brown - A Crystal Fascination (04:10)
[electric guitar with effects]
www.myspace.com/glennbrown

09 Jon 7 - An Eerie Paradise (04:58)
[detuned zither]
www.myspace.com/jon7theartist
www.jon7.net

10 The Nature of Light - Vacuum Metastability Event (04:58)
[Fender American Strat, Les Paul Custom, Yamaha BB3000MA]
tnol.metafex.net/v2/

11 Subscape Annex - Lullabye for a Featureless Plain (03:28)
[Chapman Stick with effects]
www.subscapeannex.com

12 Brian Grover & Don Hill - Steppe Strings
[B.G.- Igil, Chanzy & Oud; D.H.- Arrangement & Effects]
dhill@jpusa.org

*Disk B

01 Kokan Dellec - Sepia (04:14)
[processed classical guitar]
www.myspace.com/kokandellec

02 Shadowsense - Earth in Alarm (04:19)
[acoustic guitar with effects]
www.skeletone.net/shadowsense.htm

03 Three Souls - The Drone (06:34)
[Gibson Les Paul with effect]
www.myspace.com/stringtheorymusicband

04 C.P. McDill - The Northern Lights (04:22)
[processed autoharp and electric guitar w/slide]
www.cpmcdill.com

05 C. Reider and Caerie - The Ghost Sifting Process (05:29)
[autoharp & hammered dulcimer]
www.vuzhmusic.com

06 Caleb Deupree - Cathedral (excerpt) (04:59)
[piano - a string instrument!]
classicaldrone.blogspot.com

07 Terje Paulsen - Blues for Lhasa (05:00)
[bowed + e-bowed 3-string acoustic guitar]
www.myspace.com/terjepaulsen

08 Wavespan - Harmonic Evolution (04:59)
[Rickenbacker 330, McNally Strumstick, Fender J-bass]
www.myspace.com/wavespan

09 8m2stereo - mes. (webbed tape edit) (05:02)
[electric guitar with effects]
www.last.fm/user/8m2stereo

10 Audio Gourmet - Inner Monologue (07:14)
[guitar]
audiogourmet.blogspot.com/

Thank you for listening to this Webbed Hand Records release. Please visit the WHR homepage to explore our complete catalog of experimental and ambient recordings. All of our music is free to download, but we'd be very grateful if you could make a small donation (via Paypal) to help with the costs of maintaining a netlabel.

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